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# Senior Director of Communications at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8241853

## Job description

The Senior Director of Communications, EMEA owns the EMEA communications strategy and regional reputation posture. This is a strategic, enterprise-facing role that advises executive leadership, sets the narrative and risk response for major business moments, and makes cross-market trade-offs across a complex matrix of countries, functions, and global stakeholders. The Senior Director is accountable for direction, prioritization, and outcomes—not day-to-day production.

What You’ll Do:

- Own the EMEA communications strategy, annual priorities, resource allocation, and governance in partnership with the C-suite, regional leadership, and communications.
- Serve as the principal communications adviser to executive leadership on reputation, risk, transformation, geopolitical developments, and market-sensitive issues; challenge assumptions, recommend choices, and guide leaders through ambiguity.
- Own EMEA reputation through an integrated strategy spanning corporate, product, financial, internal, executive, and digital communications.
- Set the principles for translating global strategy into locally credible narratives, balancing consistency with market, language, cultural, and regulatory realities.
- Set the communications strategy and executive narrative for major organizational change, acquisitions, market entries, crises, leadership transitions, and other high-visibility events.
- Set the regional media and thought-leadership agenda; approve story platforms, executive positioning, reputation programs, and stakeholder engagement priorities.
- Own the regional crisis posture and serve as the senior escalation point during high-impact incidents; determine response strategy and align Legal, HR, and business leadership.
- Direct the regional operating model, including agency strategy, budget, measurement, governance, planning rhythms, quality standards, and resource trade-offs.
- Build communications leadership capability through coaching, talent planning, succession, and clear role design across the EMEA portfolio.
- Establish outcome frameworks that connect communications to business priorities and use them to make investment and prioritization decisions.
- Represent EMEA in global communications planning and ensure regional insight influences enterprise decisions.

What We’re Looking For:

- Typically 12+ years of experience in corporate, agency, public affairs, or executive communications, including a demonstrated record of leadership across multiple markets.
- Demonstrated experience advising senior executives and leading communications through significant business change.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous or politically sensitive situations, with the credibility to challenge, simplify, and make decisions at executive level.
- Proven ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization and manage directors, agencies, and multi-market programs.
- Exceptional writing, narrative development, media, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience working across markets and fluency in French or German.

Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.

Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.

- Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

## About Navan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Navan is the leading all-in-one, AI-powered business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes corporate travel effortless for frequent travelers while giving finance teams full control.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: **NAVN**, listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Corporate travel management, expense management, travel technology, payments.
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies; also SMBs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make travel easy for every traveler by being the best travel agency on the planet."

## Products & Services
- **Navan Travel**: AI-powered booking platform for flights, hotels, and ground transportation with extensive inventory access (including NDC content from 17+ airlines).
- **Navan Expense**: Automated expense management that categorizes and reconciles receipts, with real-time policy enforcement and integration with ERPs.
- **Navan Edge**: AI travel assistant (chat-based) that handles bookings and provides 24/7 human support.
- **Navan Rewards**: Incentive program that rewards employees for booking below budget.
- **Navan Connect (BYOC)**: Card-link technology that connects corporate cards from 250+ banks, enabling unified spend visibility.
- **Navan Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual cards for payments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (post-IPO, real-time market cap available on exchanges).
- **Key Metric**: **Total Headcount** ~3,300 employees (as of 2026); **Number of customers** – thousands, including major enterprises like Heineken, Unilever, Wayfair, and Zoom.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources, but strategic partners include Amadeus (dual-GDS model) and major airlines via NDC.
- **Growth Signals**: Went public in October 2025; expanded globally through acquisitions of Comtravo (Germany), Resia (France), Tripeur (India), and Reed & MacKay (Europe); now operates 50 offices worldwide; first TMC to integrate AI across the entire platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first platform**: First travel management company to embed AI across search, booking, expense reconciliation, and customer service.
- **All-in-one T&E**: Combines travel, expense, and payments in a single system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Dual-GDS model**: Integrated with both Sabre and Amadeus, providing global coverage and competitive pricing.
- **NDC leader**: Offers access to 17 airlines’ New Distribution Capability content for better fares and inventory.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue leading in AI-powered travel and expense innovation.
- Expand corporate card and payments ecosystem (Navan Connect, external card linking).
- Deepen enterprise capabilities and global footprint (targeting mid-market and large multinationals).
- Drive user adoption through employee rewards and seamless mobile experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in office (Palo Alto HQ and other global offices). Strong emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- **Culture**: Meritocratic, high-ownership, “high-talent density” environment. Values include extreme ownership, bias to action, “AI-first mindset”, and “seriously fun”.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - Flexible vacation (take time off as needed, manager coordination).
  - Paid parental leave (16 weeks birthing parent, 10 weeks non-birthing).
  - 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discount.
  - Medical, dental, vision, pet insurance.
  - Commuter benefits, in-office snacks and lunches, dog-friendly offices.
  - Headspace mental health subscription.
  - Navan personal travel discounts (employee leisure bookings at corporate rates).
  - Connectivity allowance (bi-weekly stipend for remote work).
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling public company; teams across engineering, product, data science, travel operations, and R&D.

## Sources
1. [navan.com](https://navan.com/ – Product overview, platform details)
2. [navan.com/about](https://navan.com/about – Company history, mission, timeline, IPO)
3. [navan.com/careers](https://navan.com/careers – Culture, values, benefits, work model)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/navan – Headcount, offices, hybrid policy, perks)

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